Harness-loop



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T. S. ALEXANDER.

HARNESS LOOP.

No. 356,912. Patented Feb. 1, 1887.

JJ NVENTOR.

WITNESSES ATTORNEYS.

Darren STATES PATENT FFKCEO THOMAS S. ALEXANDER, OF MERIDEN, OONNEGTlCUT.

HARNESS-LOOP.

FePECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 356,912, dated February 1, 1887.

Application filed November 6, 1886. Serial No. 218,153.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS S. ALEXANDER, of Meriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Improved HarnessLoop, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a part of one side of a harness back-pad having my improved loop applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the lower part of the loop, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the backplate removed from the loop.

The invention will first be described in connection with the drawings, and then pointed out in the claim.

A represents one side of the back-pad, and B the lower part or padskirt, to both of which the loop-casting C is attached by the plate D, terret E, and screw F, the plate being passed up between the pad and skirt, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1. The loop is composed of the ring or loop portion (2 and bodyf, both cast together in one piece, the plate D being separate and secured to the body portion f by brazing or by the rivets a a. The body portion f is formed with a shoulder, f and a recess, 1, to receive the end of the plate D, and with the offset-flange or outside plate, 7,

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through which is formed an aperture, 1), for the passage of the screw F. The rivets a are cast in and with the bodyf, and about the recessf is formed the flanges g,which stand flush with the outer surface of the plate D when in place and make a good finish, and brace the plate D against lateral movement and relieve the rivets a of excessive strain.

The plate D is formed at its lower end with the holes h, to receive the rivets (a, and at its upper end with the aperture j, to receive the screw-shankof the terret E, and the ring or loop (1 is pitched slightly inward from the plane of the body portionf, as shown in Fig. 2, to conform to the natural curve of the backad. p Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters U Patent, is

As an improved article of manufacture, the harness-loop herein shown and described, the same consisting of the separate loop-casting 0, formed with the ring d, body f, flange f offset f, and recess f, in which the rivetsaare formed,in combination with the separate plate D, secured at one end directly to the bodycasting O in the recess f by the rivets a, substantially as set forth.

' THOMAS S. ALEXANDER.

"Witnesses:

SELAH A. HULL, EMMA O. Annnnws. 

